Gender-specific effect of maternal deprivation on anxiety and corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNA expression in rats

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 85-91

  Barna, István ^a   Bálint, Eszter ^a   Baranyi, Johanna ^a   Bakos, Nikoletta ^a   Makara, Gábor B ^a   Haller, József ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Corticosterone; CRH; Elevated plus maze; Maternal deprivation; mRNA; Rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULTHOOD; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0345293224     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(03)00216-8     Document Type: Article

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